[FLEX-26095] Scroller, ScrollerSkin and ScrollerLayout

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Later
• Affects Version/s: Adobe Flex SDK 4.5 (Release)
• Component/s: Spark: Scroller
• Environment: Affected OS(s): All OS Platforms; Affected OS(s): All OS Platforms; Language Found: English
• Assignee: Adobe JIRA
• Reporter: Adobe JIRA
• Created: 02/Dec/10 03:39
• Updated: 21/Oct/11 14:01
• Resolved: 03/Dec/10 13:40

Description

Today Scroller's layout is hardwired to the Scroller component. The ScrollerLayout performs complex operations to position and size the vertical and horizontal scrollbars when needed.

There're cases where it's the automatic positioning and sizing of the scrollbars is not desired (to create funcier scrolling experiences).

It'd be interesting to instantiante the ScrollerLayout directly in the ScrollerSkin instead of doing so in the Scroller coimponent. This way developers who wanted to reskin an application that used Scrollers - and could live without the support for auto scrolling - could just as well use an alternative to ScrollerLayout in ScrollerSkin.

This would also may help the way FlashCatalyst generates skins related to scrolls